17/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Happy Cog Studios: Work: Capgemini - Looks nice. #
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17/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : PlayStation 3 - Looks cool. That is, everything except the controller. #
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17/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : HOW-TO: WRT Client Mode - HOW-TO: WRT Client Mode: I need to try this too
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17/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Firefox Users Monkey With the Web - Firefox Users Monkey With the Web: a good high-level overview of gresemonkey from wired
Simon Willison : Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web - Greasemonkey on Wired - and I get quoted!
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17/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Star Wars' Last Supper - from Giant Magazine
jimray : Star Wars last supper
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17/05/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
cobra libre : a german reviews dashboard - the internationalization is ridiculously poor (see also: the apple dictionary application) #
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17/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Techdirt:Napster's Response To Yahoo? Sit And Stare, Dumbfounded - Techdirt:Napster's Response To Yahoo? Sit And Stare, Dumbfounded: best headline ever!
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17/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jkottke : Remembering boo.com, five years after it died
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17/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Why we shouldn't pay that much attention to the box office gross - "Ticket sales from theaters provided 100 percent of the studios' revenues in 1948; in 2003, they accounted for less than 20 percent." And he doesn't even mention inflation...Gone With the Wind is still the highest grossing film in hist
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17/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Movies that have been considered the greatest ever
kayodeok : Movies that have been considered the greatest ever - While it is impossible to determine the greatest film of all time, it is possible to discuss the movies that have been regarded as the greatest ever
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17/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : If you get the right bottle, aged champagne can be quite tasty
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17/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with the guy who came up with "falsh mobs" - Flash mobs "turned into a sprawling, global fad practically overnight--and then largely faded away almost as quickly as it appeared".
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17/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Isofarro : CSS Specificity - CSS specificity of styles explains how styles are prioritised when rendered.
kayodeok : CSS - Specificity - "If you have two (or more) conflicting CSS rules that point to the same element, there are some basic rules that a browser follows to determine which one is most specific and therefore wins out"
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17/05/2005 @ 21:06 GMT
Eric Meyer : Young cancer survivors face burdens - A sobering reminder than even when the primary disease is beaten, that isn't the end of the story.
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17/05/2005 @ 21:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Slave Leia pet costume - Buy, buy, buy! (via Metafilter)
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17/05/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Star Wars Ends With Solid Sith - "Finally, fans can put the days of "Yippee!" and Jar Jar in the past". [via] #
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17/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus's photographs? - CNN's Anderson Cooper was that weird looking baby?
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17/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Scotland | New BBC weather map causes storm - Tediously predictable wah-wah-wah from the Scottish nationalists about the new BBC weather maps. Saw this one coming a mile off. #
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17/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Nintendo Revolution revealed - first pics, but not focused on performance increases [via] [via]
deusx : Nintendo Revolution Unveiled News Story From 1UP.COM - "From old school games like Donkey Kong to modern GameCube releases like Super Mario Sunshine, Nintendo says they'll all be available for download on Revolution, though a price, if there will be one, has yet to be determined."
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17/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Playstation 3 technical demos - all real-time, very impressive
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Andy Baio : Nintendo announces Game Boy Micro - a GBA with a 2 inch screen; are games even playable at that size?
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17/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : How to turn a block of Antarctic ice into a giant neutrino detector - "To turn the ice into a telescope, all you have to do is drill an array of 80 holes half a meter across by 2.5km deep using a very powerfull jet of hot water. Then lower a string of 60 optical detectors into each hole before they refreeze, conect the
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17/05/2005 @ 18:58 GMT
kellan : Rafe decloaks about who he works for. - Good name. Now if I had the tools and rights to opt-out/opt-in to databases based on their access policies then this would really take off. #
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17/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : steve dekorte - projects - open source - SkipDB - "SkipDB is a BerkeleyDB style database implemented with skip lists instead of a b-tree."
Simon Willison : skipdb - skipdb. Small, fast BerkeleyDB style database using skip lists, by the creator of the Io programming language. [via]
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17/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Ken MacLeod 15 05 2005 - Steal this idea: Browser-based microformat plugins - I wonder if I could hack together a Greasemonkey script or bookmarklet that would turn a given textarea into a structured microformat editor, dynamically?
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17/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Chicago Crime - amazing database of publicly-reported crimes; here's a first-degree murder Google Map
Simon Willison : Chicago crime database - Includes a really slick integration of Google Maps.
Philippe Janvier : Chicago crime database - Une façon bien particulière d'utiliser les Google maps. [via] #
kaninka.net : chicagocrime.org - A freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago
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17/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Killzone 2 trailer for the PS3 - looks pre-rendered to me; I'll believe it when I see it [via] [via]
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17/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : taint.org: Justice Bradley on patent law (1882) - "It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures." #
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17/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Nintendo Power Special: The making of Super Mario Bros. 3
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17/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
philgyford : Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Love letter to Broadway - Richard Eyre on 'Guys and Dolls'. I *love* 'Guys and Dolls'.
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17/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Secret Wall Tattoos - People are removing art from hotel room walls, creating their own art on the wall beneath, and then replacing the art of top of it for others to discover at a later time.
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17/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Whatever happened to that baby from the cover of Nivana's Nevermind?
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17/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Banning Google - Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz, a German law professor living in Japan and author of a book on Go as well as a PageRank 7 blog, is banning Google from his site to protest against the Web Accelerator... which he calls the "ultimate spyware"
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17/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Firefox Users Monkey With the Web - "...the idea of every browser making changes to content is how the web should work". [via] #
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17/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Neutrino XML again - "...when does this proliferation of metadata abstractions end "? [via] #
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17/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web - In a modern twist on the hot rodders of old, Firefox users are pimping the web, one browser at a time
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17/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Anti-Anti-Piracy Seal - A beautiful bit of design for artists to put on their albums if they don't mind it being shared online. I doubt we'll see it in the wild...
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17/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl - An awesome piece of investigation into the figure of the mermaid, the siren and representations of female sexuality centred around the Starbucks logo
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17/05/2005 @ 11:58 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla Foundation to Co-Host XTech 2005 - I would so like to thank the government for planning exams in that same week. #
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17/05/2005 @ 11:57 GMT
Richard Rutter : Malarkey?s musical baton - .
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17/05/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
znarf : Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags [via] #
Nelson Minar : Shirky on ontology - Clay writes up some excellent talks
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17/05/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands - This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 4th Edition. Click on any of the 515 commands below to get a description and list of available options.
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17/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Installing Firefox extensions by using the Windows Registry (via third-party installers like msi) - This document describes the Win32 registry based install location for extensions. This only applies to applications that use a 1.8 or later toolkit (e.g., Firefox 1.1)
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17/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Canon EOS Digital Rebel (300D) Firmware Hack - The Canon EOS Digital Rebel (300D) Firmware Hack: turn your 300D into a 10D
Jason Shellen : Digital Rebel Firmware Hack - I usually the first to try any sort of non-destructive hack but firmware level hacks make me nervous. #
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17/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : Kylie Minogue 'has breast cancer' - "Singer Kylie Minogue has postponed her tour of Australia after being diagnosed with breast cancer, her tour company has announced"
kayodeok : Kylie Minogue has breast cancer - Singer Kylie Minogue has been diagnosed with breast cancer, leading her to postpone the Australian leg of her world tour
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17/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NES emulator for the PSP released - SNES and Gameboy Color emulated already; is the GBA next? [via] [via]
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17/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
jimray : Mac OS X 10.4.1 - That was quick. A little TOO quick...
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17/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : NewsGator Acquires FeedDemon, TopStyle - Yes, it's true: NewsGator has acquired FeedDemon and TopStyle, and brought Nick Bradbury on board in the process
znarf : NewsGator Acquires FeedDemon, TopStyle - waow [via] #
deusx : Nick Bradbury: NewsGator Acquires FeedDemon, TopStyle...and Me! - "Yes, it's true: NewsGator has acquired FeedDemon and TopStyle, and brought me on board in the process."
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17/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Primate Programming(tm) Inc - Primate Programming(tm) Inc: cheaper than outsourcing to China!
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17/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Episode III hits BitTorrent? - sorry, I don't buy it; if anyone can confirm this isn't a fake, let me know
Nelson Minar : Star Wars on BT? - Waxy thinks this isn't real, but it's only a matter of hours either way
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17/05/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : mistakes stock traders make
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17/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : Sci Fi Wire -- Dark Crystal Sequel Announced - "The Jim Henson Co. announced that it will produce a feature-film sequel to its 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal, with the working title The Power of the Dark Crystal."
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17/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Google has del.icio.us tags and RSS feed autodiscovery? - A sighting by O'Reilly Radar, which suggests Google is experimenting with RSS and tagging - linking to delicious. They have a screenshot.
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Hoist by my own petard (was Google has del.icio.us tags and RSS feed autodiscovery) - how much of what we're seeing is really on the Web and how much an artifact of augmented Web reality?
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17/05/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Matthew Yglesias' greatest thread ever - I'm thinking he should try stuffing the head with garlic, but that may be zombies and salt. (Bonus points for the 2:48 comment.)
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17/05/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Steve Cook : The "R. Crumb Handbook" on NPR - Alice Koninsky-Crumb gets, I dunno, a pocketbook or something, I guess.
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17/05/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Google Will Eat Itself - A slow wave corporate takeover/performance art project, in which Google Adsense funds purchase of Google shares. (via We Make Money Not Art)
Kellan : Google Will Eat Itself - Now thats what I call topically relevant art. #
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17/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Web 1.0 Summit - Don't miss the comments! e.g. "There are places where Web 1.0 is appropriate and flashy stuff is not and vice versa, but mostly the former."
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17/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Newsgator Acquires FeedDemon - Newsgator Acquires FeedDemon: holy crap!
ricmac : Newsgator Acquires FeedDemon - Steve Rubel has the scoop: "FeedDemon will integrate tightly with the NewsGator Online synchronization platform and come bundled with all of NewsGator's paid subscription plans."
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17/05/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
jimray : Donald Trump says "the terrorists win" if we build Freedom Tower - You know, I didn't really have an opinion on the matter before hand, but now that The Donald hates it, I love the thing! The old WTC towers were about as ugly as you could find and this asshat wants to simply rebuild them.
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17/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : aspect ratios - aspect ratios: this shit is way too complicated
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17/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : yadis - yadis: yet another distributed identity system
erikbenson : yadis: yet another distributed identity system - this one actually looks pretty interesting. it's simple, smart, and admits what it's not doing, but they seem like the right things not to do.
deusx : yadis: yet another distributed identity system - "This is yet another distributed identity system, but one that's actually distributed and doesn't entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business."
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17/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 50 Fun Things to Do with Your iPod - a great roundup
jkottke : 50 Things to Do with Your iPod - Besides listen to music with those white earbuds.
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17/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Joystiq's live coverage of the PS3 press conference - more powerful than the new Xbox; other photos in the comments
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17/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Newsgator buying FeedDemon? - two of the biggest client-side Windows feedreaders merging [via] [via]
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17/05/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : News 14 Carolina gets pwnt - Raleigh local news outfit uses internets to schedule school/business closings, hilarity ensues
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17/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mountain Dew X Beta - Mountain Dew X Beta: WTF?!?! A beta for a drink?!?!
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17/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : SNES9x emulator ported to the PSP - all these hacks require the Japanese 1.0 firmware, which Sony is quickly forcing out [via] [via]
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17/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Halfbakery idea for Google Minus Button - badly needed, and would also provide aggregate stats to Google for removing spam
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17/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
deusx : Weblog Processing using XSLT - "A web logging system based on XSLT processing and Atom8[1]. A community development process."
Isofarro : Weblog Processing using XSLT - Atom 0.8 and XSLT 2.0 to generate HTML pages
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17/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
deusx : Higher-Order JavaScript - "A JavaScriptish companion to Mark-Jason Dominus's Higher-Order Perl "
Isofarro : Higher-Order JavaScript - Extreme JavaScript - looks like Perl gurus let loose on JavaScript
kayodeok : Higher-Order JavaScript - "I've decided that, as I'm reading Mark Jason Dominus's brilliant book Higher-Order Perl, I should make some notes on how MJD's ideas apply to JavaScript"
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17/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
deusx : Folksonomise your files with Automator - "When I run it with one or more files selected in the Finder, a little box appears asking me to type in some tags."
cobra libre : folksonomise your files with automator - if you want to do this within iPhoto, this technique can be adapted to that, too, and it works much better than iPhoto's lousy keywords #
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17/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : Kan. Debate Challenges Science Itself - Yahoo! News - "In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be able to discriminate between science and non-science ... They want to rewrite the rules of science."
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17/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Forrester Research: Greasemonkey Primes Firefox For Embarrassment - "IT managers beware: Greasemonkey will cause you nothing but headaches, and may even be a good reason to delay that Firefox pilot you're planning."
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17/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How Quicken Has Lost My Trust - How Quicken Has Lost My Trust: you screw your customers and they'll walk
Nelson Minar : Trusting Quicken - or not (via Zawodny)
deusx : William Reardon's Blog: How Quicken Has Lost My Trust - "We'd be making one of the largest purchases of our life, misled by deceptive advertising embedded in Quicken."
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